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Open Bioinformatics Journal

Bentham Science Publishers · United Arab Emirates · Est. 2007

ISSN1875-0362
SJR Q4Scopus / SJR
5
/ 100
High Risk
Score Breakdown
Scopus Q4+5
Total5
Journal Impact Factor
Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗
SJR Score
0.18
H-Index
18
CiteScore
View ↗
Scopus metric · on the journal’s page
SNIP
0.349
Total Works
194
Total Citations
2,584
2yr Mean Citedness
2.20
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Aims & Scope

The Open Bioinformatics Journal is an open-access journal that publishes research articles, reviews/mini-reviews, letters, clinical trial studies and guest-edited single-topic issues in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. The coverage includes biomedicine, focusing on large data acquisition, analysis and curation, computational and statistical methods for the modeling and analysis of biological data, and descriptions of new algorithms and databases. The Open Bioinformatics Journal, a peer reviewed journal, is an important and reliable source of current information on the developments in the field. Emphasis is placed on publishing quality papers, making them freely available to researchers worldwide. The Open Bioinformatics Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal covering all aspects of bioinformatics published continuously by Bentham Open.

⚡ Speed vs Prestige
How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?
Q4
SJR Rank
Bottom 25%

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Arab Emirates
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published2007
Frequencycontinuously
StatusActive (last: 2026)
Total Publications194
Publisher OrgBentham Science Publishers
OA Since2011
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Submission Info

Peer Reviewpeer reviewed
Review Time
Acceptance Rate
OA LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

7/12 · 58%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Bentham Science Publishers
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1875-0362
Indexed in a trusted database?
Scopus
Peer review process documented?
peer reviewed
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
APC fees clearly disclosed?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
N/A
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
Primary language documented?
English

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Times cited
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Biomedical EngineeringQ4
Computer Science (miscellaneous)Q4
Health InformaticsQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Computer Science (miscellaneous)Biomedical EngineeringHealth Informatics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Machine Learning in BioinformaticsGenomics and Phylogenetic StudiesBioinformatics and Genomic NetworksGene expression and cancer classificationComputational Drug Discovery MethodsProtein Structure and DynamicsRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingArtificial Intelligence in HealthcareRNA and protein synthesis mechanismsAI in cancer detection
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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref